Publications by members of the Early Minds Lab
Copyright notice: The PDFs on this page are provided to facilitate the non-commercial exchange of scientific information. The publishers of these articles hold the copyright. Anyone downloading a PDF from this page should use it in manner consistent with the fair use provisions of U.S. copyright law. In particular, downloaded PDFs should not be distributed or used for any profit-making enterprise.
2025
Papers
Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2025). How attention and working memory work together in the pursuit of goals: The development of the sampling-remembering trade-off. Developmental Review, 75, 101187. PDF
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2025). My tablet’s about to go dead! 6-year-old children adjust their cognitive strategies depending on whether an external source is reliably available. Cognitive Development, 73, 101542, PDF
Liang, Y., Blaser, E., Yi, J. Y., Sai, L., & Kaldy, Z., (2025). The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-dependent Trade-off Between External and Internal Memory. Psychological Science, PDF, Suppl.Materials.pdf
Conferences
Donenfeld, J., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2025). Testing the Interleaving Effect Without Response Bias: A Replication of Kornell & Bjork (2008). Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, May 24-26, 2025, Washington, DC.
Koolhaas, C., Zack, J., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2025). The cost-based balancing of sampling versus remembering in a naturalistic task. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 16-20, 2025, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Koolhaas, C., Liang, Y., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2025). The Shopping Game: How much working memory do children use when it’s up to them? Poster to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, May 1-3, 2025, Minneapolis, MN.
Koolhaas, C., Hamilton, M., Roper, T., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2025). Proactive interference disrupts 2-year-olds’ working memory. Poster to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, May 1-3, 2025, Minneapolis, MN.
2024
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Morina, E., Wu, J.L., Harris, D.A., &. Hayes-Skelton, S.A. (under review). Biases in perceiving positive versus negative emotions: The influence of social anxiety and state affect. Cognition and Emotion.
Donenfeld, J., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2024). The resolution of proactive interference in a novel visual working memory task: A behavioral and pupillometric study. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. PDF
Morina, E., Harris, D.A., Hayes-Skelton, S.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (accepted). Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: Differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces. Cognition and Emotion. PDF
Kosie, J., Zettersten, M. … Kaldy, Z., …Lew-Williams, C. (registered report accepted). ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. Nature Human Behaviour. https://psyarxiv.com/ck3vd/
Westebbe, L., Liang, Y., & Blaser, E. (2024). The Accuracy and Precision of Memory for Natural Scenes: A Walk in the Park. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, 8, 131–147. doi.org /10.1162/opmi_a_00122
Hamilton, M., Roper, T., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2024). Can’t get it out of my head: Proactive interference in 3- to 8-year-old children’s visual working memory. Developmental Psychology, 60, 3, 582–594. PDF
Conferences
Blesic, M., Koolhaas, C., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z., & Kovács, A.M. (2024). Gist-based scene categorization in infants. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-11, 2024, Glasgow, UK.
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2024). Infants can build panoramic scene representations from different viewpoints. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-11, 2024, Glasgow, UK.
Pham, Q.A. & Blankenship T. L. (2024). Imagining the short-term and long-term future from another’s perspective. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-11, 2024, Glasgow, UK.
Tan, R., Cao, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2024). 4 trials is not enough: the amount of prior audio-visual but NOT audio-tactile exposure strengthens crossmodal correspondences between nonsense sounds and abstract shapes experienced via touch early in development. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, June 17-20, Reno NV.
Donenfeld, J., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2024). Testing the Interleaving Effect Without Response Bias: A Replication of Kornell & Bjork (2008). Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, May 24-26, 2024, San Francisco, CA.
Cao, S., Kelly, J., Nguyen, C., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro V.M. (2024). Prior visual experience increases children's use of effective haptic exploration strategies in audio-tactile sound-shape correspondences. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 17-22, 2024, St Pete Beach, FL.
Sharma, K., Morina, E., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2024). Emotional processing biases in social anxiety: testing ecologically valid emotional stimuli. Poster presented at the Annual CLA Undergraduate Research Showcase at the University of Massachusetts Boston, April 24, 2024.
Sharma, K., Morina, E., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2024). Biases in the processing of dynamic emotional faces and emotional voices as a function of social anxiety. Poster presented at the Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 19, 2024.
Donenfeld, J., Kaldy, Z., Blankenship., T., & Bell, M.A. (2024). Schooling improves inhibitory control in 6-year-olds independent of age: A secondary data analysis. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, March 21-23, 2024, Pasadena, CA. PDF
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2024). My tablet’s about to go dead! 6-year-old children adjust their cognitive strategies depending on whether an external source is reliably available. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, March 21-23, 2024, Pasadena, CA.
Pham, Q.A., Trindade, L., Blankenship T. L. (2024). Episodic memory supports episodic future thinking for oneself and another. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, March 21-23, 2024, Pasadena, CA
2023
Papers
Blankenship, T.L. & Kibbe, M. M. (2023). Plan chunking supports memory-guided planning in 3-year-olds. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13929
Cao, S., Kelly, J., Nguyen, C., Chow, H.M, Leonardo, B, Sabov, A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (accepted). Prior visual experience increases children's use of effective haptic exploration strategies in audio-tactile sound-shape correspondences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Chow, HM, Briggs, D, & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). Does task-irrelevant brightness modulation affect auditory contrast processing? Exploring the interplay between temporal synchrony and stimulus salience. Multisensory Research. PDF
Sirois, S., Brisson, J., Blaser, E., Calignano, G., Donenfeld, J., Hepach, R., Hochmann J., Kaldy, Z., Liszkowski, U., Mayer, M., Ross-Sheehy, S., Russo, S., & Valenza, E. (2023). The pupil collaboration: A multi-lab, multi-method analysis of goal attribution in infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 73, 101890, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101890
Conferences
Morina, E., Beshara, M. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). Attention influences neural responses based on crossmodal correspondences: Responses to abstract shapes are enhanced, even when attending irrelevant shape features, depending on audio-visual congruency. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Nov 11, 2023, Washington D.C.
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Morina, E. (2023). Using EEG frequency tagging to probe crossmodal correspondences: the influence of attention and audio-visual congruency on a neural signature for shape processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Nov 11, 2023, Washington D.C.
Pham Q. A., Broomell A.P.R., & Blankenship T. L. (2023). Using theory of mind in memory guided planning. Poster presented at the 30th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, August 28-31, 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2023). Young children’s cost-dependent tradeoff between looking and remembering. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2023, St. Pete Beach, FL. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2792509
Alvarado, C., Tihamiuddin, S, Cao, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). The feeling of kiki: Do young children associate nonsense sounds and textures? Poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Showcase at the University of Massachusetts Boston, May 9, 2023.
Alvarado, C., Tihamiuddin, S, Cao, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). The feeling of kiki: Do young children associate nonsense sounds and textures? Poster presented at the Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 28, 2023.
Pham, Q. & Blankenship, T. (2023). Inhibitory Control Contributes to Successful Memory-Guided Planning During Early Childhood. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 23-25, 2023, Salt Lake City, UT.
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2023). Young children strategically trade-off between looking and remembering depending on cost. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 23-25, 2023, Salt Lake City, UT.
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2023). The development of proactive interference resolution in visual working memory. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 23-25, 2023, Salt Lake City, UT.
Blesic, M., Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. & Kovács, A.M. (2023). 18-month-old infants can extract the gist of a scene with labels. Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD23), January 5-7, 2023, Budapest, Hungary.
2022
Papers
Blankenship, T. L., & Kibbe, M. M. (2022). Two-year-olds apply episodic memories to accomplish novel goals. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 214, 105286.
Blankenship, T. L., Calkins, S. D., & Bell., M.A. (2022). The role of executive functions in item recognition and temporal order memory. Journal of Cognition and Development, 23, 135-147.
Freschl, J., Al Azizi, L., Balboa, L., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2022). The development of peak alpha frequency from infancy to adolescence and its role in visual temporal processing: A meta-analysis. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 57: 101146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101146
Sigala, N., Kaldy, Z., & Reynolds, G. (2022). Editorial: The cognitive neuroscience of visual working memory – Volume II. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16:1017754. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2022.1017754
Hamilton, M., Ross, A., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Proactive interference and working memory development. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Cognitive Science, e1593. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1593 PDF
Visser, I., Bergmann, C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Dal Ben, R., Duch, W., Forbes, S., ... Kaldy, Z.., … Zettersten, M. (2022). Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E35. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21000455. PDF
Conferences
Blankenship, T. L. (2022). Limitations of memory-guided planning in 2- and 3-year-olds. Poster presented at the International Conference of Infant Studies Biennial meeting, Ottawa, Canada.
Blankenship, T.L., Kibbe, M. M. (2022). “Plan chunking” improves 3-year-olds’ ability to use episodic memories to guide future actions. Symposium paper presented virtually at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.
Blesic, M., Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. & Kovács, A.M. (2022). 18-month-old infants can extract the gist of a scene. Poster presented at the 7th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Aug 24-26, 2022, Lancaster, UK.
Beshore, J., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Pupillary response indicates the resolution of proactive interference in a visual working memory task. Talk presented at the Annual Working Memory Symposium, June 21-24, 2022. (virtual)
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Morina, E. (2022) Development of the angry-male/ happy-female bias. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Apr 23-26. San Francisco, CA.
Morina, E. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2022) The angry-male/ happy-female bias in individuals high versus low in social anxiety. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Apr 23-26. San Francisco, CA.
Hamilton, M., Roper, T., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Proactive interference from LTM hinders retrieval from visual working memory in 3-year-olds. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Apr 21-22, 2022, Madison, WI.
Morina, E. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2022) Changes in the angry-male / happy-female bias across development. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2022, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Beshore, J., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. (2022). Pupillary response indicates the resolution of proactive interference in a visual working memory task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2022, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Proactive interference disrupts toddlers’ visual working memory. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-10, 2022, Ottawa, Canada.
Pham Q. & Blankenship T. L. (2022) Inhibitory control contributes to successful memory-guided planning during early childhood. Poster presented at NeuroBoston Society for Neuroscience Boston chapter meeting, Boston, MA.
2021
Papers
Fitch, A., Thaker, N., & Kaldy, Z. (2021). The role of redundant verbal labels in 8- and 10-month-olds’ working memory. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101617. PDF
Chow, H.M., Harris, D.A., Eid, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2021). The feeling of "kiki": Comparing developmental changes in sound-shape correspondence for audio-visual and audio-tactile stimuli. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105167. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2021). Coffee with the executive. Book review of David Badre’s ‘On Task’. Current Biology, 31, R270–R271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.020. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2021). On taking the historian’s stance in a natural science. In: Gervain, J., Kovács, K., & Csibra, G. (Eds.) A Life in Cognition: Studies in Cognitive Science in honor of Csaba Pléh. Language, Cognition, and Mind, vol 11. Springer, Cham. PDF https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66175-5_14
Conferences
Blankenship, T. L., Strong R. W., & Kibbe, M. M. (April, 2021). Development of split foci of attention. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development’s Conference biennial meeting (virtual due to COVID-19).
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2021). Proactive interference disrupts 3-year-old toddlers’ visual working memory. Poster presented at the 6th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Aug 25-27, 2021. (virtual due to COVID-19)
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Kelly, J., & Nguyen, C. (2021). The feeling of “kiki”: select tactile experience or visual imagery can enhance abstract audio-tactile crossmodal correspondences in early childhood. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 21-26, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Freschl, J., Al Alizi, L., Balboa, L., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2021). The development of peak alpha frequency from infancy to adolescence and its role in visual temporal processing: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 21-26, 2021. (virtual due to COVID-19) abstract
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2021). Building 3D scene representations from different viewpoints: A contextual cueing study. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 21-26, 2021. (virtual due to COVID-19) abstract
Freschl, J., Al Alizi, L., Balboa, L., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2021). Development of occipital peak alpha frequency: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 4-9, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Kelly, J., & Nguyen, C. (2021). The feeling of “kiki”: tactile experience and visual imagery can enhance abstract audio-tactile crossmodal correspondences in early childhood, but do they alter haptic exploration strategies? Presentation at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD21), January 3-5, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Kaldy, Z., Cheng, C., & Blaser, E. (2021). Delayed Match Retrieval: A five-year retrospective. Presentation at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD21), January 3-5, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
2020
Papers
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Carter, A. S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Seeing a page of a flipbook: Shorter visual temporal integration windows in 2-year-old toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2430. PDF
Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). A crowd of emotional voices influences the perception of emotional faces: Using adaptation, stimulus salience, and attention to probe audio-visual interactions for emotional stimuli. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02104-0. URL
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Coding of featural information in Visual Working Memory in 2.5-year-old toddlers. Cognitive Development, 55:100892. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Putting effort into infant cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420903015. PDF
Chow HM., Leviyah, X., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). Individual differences in multisensory interactions: The influence of temporal phase coherence and auditory salience on visual contrast sensitivity. Vision, Special Issue on Multisensory Modulation of Vision, 4, 12. PDF
Blankenship, T. L., Strong, R. W., Kibbe, M. M. (2020). Development of multiple object tracking via multifocal attention. Developmental Psychology, 56, 1684. PDF
Conferences
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2020). Proactive interference disrupts toddlers’ visual working memory. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 6-9, 2020. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Multimodal stimuli with sound/shape correspondence help the working memory of 9-month-old infants. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 6-9, 2020. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Kelly, J. Nguyen, K. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). Feeling Bouba or Kiki: the role of select prior exposure in enhancing audio-tactile associations early in development. Sigma Xi Student Scholars Symposium May 14, 2020, [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Visual temporal integration windows are longer in infants. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, June 19-24, 2020, St. Pete Beach, FL. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). Multisensory interactions between emotional faces and voices can be enhanced by attending to face emotion, but not to face gender. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, May 2-5, 2020, [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Kaldy, Z. (2020). Visual attentional mechanisms in 2-year-olds with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Invited talk as part of the Presidential Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, June 17-18, 2020. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
2019
Papers
Guillory, S. B., & Kaldy, Z. (2019). Persistence and accumulation of visual memories for objects in scenes in 12-month-old infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 10: 2454. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02454
Izen, S.C., Lapp, H. E., Harris, D.A., Hunter, R. G., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019). Seeing a face in a crowd of emotional voices: Changes in perception and cortisol in response to emotional information across the senses. Brain Sciences, Special Issue on Perceptual and Affective Mechanisms in Facial Expression, 9, 176. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). 2-year-olds succeed at MIT: Multiple Identity Tracking in 20- and 25-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 187, 104649. PDF
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). Visual temporal integration windows are adult-like in 5-7-year-old children. Journal of Vision, 19(7):5, 1–12. https://jov.arvojournals.org/Article.aspx?articleid=2738014.
Smith, H., Carter, A. S., Blaser. E., Kaldy. Z. (2019) Successful attentional set-shifting in 2-year- olds with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0213903. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0213903.
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). Pupillometry reveals that focused attention predicts visual working memory performance in infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 36:100616. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100616.
Media coverage: ScienceTrends.com
Chow HM. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019). What makes a shape 'baba'? The shape feature prioritized in sound-shape correspondence changes with development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 179, 73-89. PDF
Fitch, A., Valadez, A., Ganea, P., Carter, A. S., & Kaldy, Z. (2019). Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder can use language to update their expectations about the world. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(2):429-440. PDF
Blankenship, T.L. & Kibbe, M. M. (2019). Examining the limits of memory-guided planning in 3 and 4-year-olds. Cognitive Development, 52, 100820. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., Slough, M.A., Calkins, S.D., Deater-Deckard, K., Kim-Spoon, J., & Bell, M.A., (2019). Attention and executive functioning in infancy: links to childhood executive function and reading achievement. Developmental Science, e12824. PDF
Conferences
Izen, S.C., Lapp, H.E., Harris, D.A., Hunter, R.G., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Seeing a face in a crowds of emotional voices: Changes in perception and cortisol in response to emotional information across the senses. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, October 19-23, Chicago, IL.
Raymond, N., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Quantifying perceptual biases in social anxiety: How do different measures compare? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences, May 27-30, Washington, DC.
Kelly, J., Chow, HM, Nguyen, C. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Feeling bouba or kiki: a role for visual exposure in tactile-audio associations. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences, May 27-30, Washington, DC.
Baidak, B. Hughes, D.E., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Does the attractiveness of a face bias how we perceive emotion in a face? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences, May 27-30, Washington, DC.
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., Morina, E. (2019). Crossmodal correspondences between abstract shapes and nonsense words modulate a neuronal signature of visual shape processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 17-22, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Carter, A. S., Dhungana, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). Visual temporal integration windows in 2-year-old toddlers with and without ASD. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 17-22, 2019, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Morina, E., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Does sound shape correspondence modulate a neuronal signature of visual shape processing for attended shapes? Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 23-26, 2019, San Francisco, CA.
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z.,& Blaser, E. (2019). Robust Visual Working Memory for object features in 2.5-year-olds. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 21-23, 2019, Baltimore, MD. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2019). Making infants’ working memory work. Invited paper as part of the Symposium The Development of Working Memory at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD19), January 3-5, 2019, Budapest, Hungary.
Cheng, C., Dhungana, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). The development of visual working memory over the second year of life. Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD19), January 3-5, 2019, Budapest, Hungary. PDF
Choi M., & Shukla, M. (2019). Can infants use multiple cues in phoneme Learning? Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD19), January 3-5, 2019, Budapest, Hungary.
2018
Papers
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Using object history to predict future behavior: Evidence for essentialism at 9 months of age. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Krogh-Jespersen, S., Kaldy, Z., Valadez, A., Carter, A. S., & Woodward, A. (2018). Goal prediction in 2-year-old children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: An eye-tracking study. Autism Research. PDF
Guillory, S. B., Gliga, T., & Kaldy, Z. (2018). Quantifying attentional effects on the fidelity and biases of visual working memory in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 167, 146–161. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., Broomell, A.P.R., & Bell, M.A. (2018). Semantic future thinking and executive funtions at age 4: the moderating role of frontal activity. Developmental Psychobiology, 60, 608-614. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., Keith, K., Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2018). Behavioral performance and neural areas associated with memory processes contribute to math and reading achievement in 6-year-old children. Cognitive Development, 47, 63-70. PDF
Conferences
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z.,& Blaser, E. (2018). Using object history to predict future behavior: Are young infants essentialists? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 25-28, 2018, Madison, WI. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Pupillometry uncovers the role of focused attention in Visual Working Memory in infants. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., Dhungana, S., & Blaser, E. (2018). Successful updating of spatial information in Visual Working Memory in 20- and 25-month-olds. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Fitch, A., Valadez, A., Carter, A. S., & Kaldy, Z. (2018). Toddlers with ASD can use linguistic information to update their mental representations. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies as part of the Symposium “The Development of Working Memory Updating”, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA.
Fitch, A., Ganea, P., Harris, P., & Kaldy, Z. (2018). 17-month-olds do not revoke trust from unreliable informants providing verbal testimony. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Carter, A. S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Visual Temporal Integration Windows are longer in 2-year-old toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Choi M., Shukla, M. (2018). Using Multiple Cues in Phoneme Learning. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Endogenous attention impairs a neuronal signature of audio-visual sound-shape correspondence. International Multisensory Research Forum, June 14-17, Toronto, Canada. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., & Silva, N. (2018) Musical expertise weakens the cost of dividing attention between vision and audition. International Multisensory Research Forum, June 14-17, Toronto, Canada. PDF
Izen, S.C., Parent, K., Goutama, V., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) How the emotion we see is influenced by the emotion we hear depends on the visibility of a face. International Multisensory Research Forum, June 14-17, Toronto, Canada. PDF
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Visual Temporal Integration Windows are adult-like in typically developing 5-7-year-old children. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 18-23, 2018, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Chow, H.M. Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Musical expertise modulates the cost of crossmodal divided attention between vision and audition in behavior but not in tonic pupil dilation. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 18-23, 2018, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Morina, E., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) The strength of adaptation to negative versus positive emotional information depends on social anxiety status. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 18-23, 2018, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Leviyah, X., Chow, H.M. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Interactions between stimulus salience and timing determine the extent to which a sound alters visual detectability. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Morina, E., Raymond, N., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Maintained negative biases in social anxiety via biased adaptation to happy and angry faces depends on face gender. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Parent, K., Goutama, V., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) How the Emotion We See is Influenced by the Emotion We Hear Depends on the Visibility of a Face. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Sabov, A., Chow, H.M., Leonardo, B., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) A neuronal signature for correspondences between abstract shapes and sounds. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Silva, N., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Does musical training improve crossmodal attention? Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Chow, H.M., Leonardo, B., Sabov, A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. Is a round shape integrated with a /bouba/ sound?
Enhanced neuronal signals at the intermodulation frequencies of congruent audio-visual stimuli. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Izen, S.C., Leviyah, X., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Seen and heard emotions of a crowd alter perception and state affect. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M. Izen, S.C., Lapp, H.E., Harris, D.A., Hunter, R.G. (2018) Seen and heard emotions alter perception and cortisol. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Morina, E., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Weakened adaptation for negative compared to positive emotions in individuals high in social anxiety. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Uysal, E., Choi M., de Villiers, J., Shukla, M. (2018). Some Complex Concepts Require Language: An eye-tracking study with 12- to 24-mo-old infants and adults. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Choi M., Uysal, E., Shukla, M. (2018). Phoneme learning in a musical context. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
2017
Papers
Soto, T.W., Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Carter, A.S. (2017). Sensory Over Responsivity. In C. Zeanah (Ed), Handbook of infant mental health, 4th edition, New York, Guilford Press. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., & Eglington, L.G. (2017). Crossmodal attention influences auditory contrast sensitivity: Decreasing visual load improves auditory thresholds for amplitude and frequency modulated sounds. Journal of Vision, 17(3):20, 1–22. PDF
Kaldy, Z. & Sigala, N. (2017). Editorial: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Working Memory. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 11:1. PDF
Kibbe, M., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2017). Rules infants look by: Testing the assumption of transitivity in visual salience. Infancy. PDF
Király, I., Takács, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2017). Preschoolers have better long-term memory for rhyming text than adults. Developmental Science, 20, e12398. PDF Supplemental TEXT Supplemental VIDEO
2016
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Stoner, G.R. (2016) . Editorial: Beyond space-based and feature-based selection: Mechanisms of object-based attention. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. PDF
Fitch, A.*, Smith, H*., Guillory, S. B., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). Off to a Good Start: The Early Development of the Neural Substrates Underlying Visual Working Memory. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 10: 68. *co-first authors PDF
Ganea, P., Fitch, A., Harris, P., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). 16-month-olds use language to generate expectations about the visual world. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 151, 65-76. PDF
Harris, D.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016) Interdependent mechanisms for processing gender and emotion: The special status of angry male faces. Frontiers in Psychology. PDF
Harris, D.A., Hayes-Skelton, S.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). What's in a face? How face gender and current affect influence perceived emotion. Frontiers in Psychology. 7: 1468. PDF
Shukla, M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Cognitive capacities of the infant mind: A neuroimaging perspective. In: M. Farisco & K. Evers (Eds.) Neurotechnology and direct brain communication. Taylor & Francis. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., O'Neill, M., Deater-Deckard, K., Diana, R.A., & Bell, M.A. (2016). Frontotemporal functional connectivity and executive funtions contribute to episodic memory performance. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 107, 72-82. PDF
Special Issue
Sigala, N., & Kaldy, Z. (Eds.) (2016). The cognitive neuroscience of visual working memory. Research Topic in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/3444/the-cognitive-neuroscience-of-visual-working-memory
2015
Papers
Chow, H.M., & Tseng, C.H. (2015). Invisible collinear structures impair search. Consciousness & Cognition, 31:46-59. PDF
Fischer, J., Smith, H., Martinez Pedraza, F., Carter, A.S., Kanwisher, N., & Kaldy, Z. (2015). Unimpaired attentional disengagement in toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Developmental Science. PDF
Fitch, A., Fein, D.A., & Eigsti, I.M. (2015). Detail and Gestalt Focus in Individuals with Optimal Outcomes from Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(6), 1887-1896. PDF
Kaldy Z., Guillory, S.B., & Blaser, E. (2015). Delayed Match Retrieval: A novel anticipation-based Visual Working Memory paradigm. Developmental Science. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., & Bell, M.A. (2015). Frontotemporal coherence and executive functions contribute to memory performance in middle childhood. Developmental Psychobiology, 40, 430-444. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., O'Neill, M., Ross, A., & Bell, M.A. (2015). Working memory and recollection contribute to academic achievement. Learning and Individual Differences, 43, 164-169. PDF
2014
Special Issue
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Stoner, G. (Eds.) (2014). Beyond Space-based or Feature-based Selection: Mechanisms of Object-based Attention. Research Topic in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/1220/beyond-space-based-or-feature-based-selection-mechanisms-of-object-based-attention
Papers
Blaser, E., Eglington, L., Carter, A.S., & Kaldy, Z. (2014). Pupillometry Reveals a Mechanism for the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Advantage in Visual Tasks. Scientific Reports, 4, 4301; doi:10.1038/srep04301. PDF
2013
Papers
Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2013). Red to green or fast to slow? Infants' Visual Working Memory for 'Just Salient Differences'. Child Development, 84(6), 1855-1862. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Giserman, I., Carter, A. S., & Blaser, E. (2013). The mechanisms underlying the ASD advantage in visual search. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. PDF
Payne, L., Guillory, S., & Sekuler, R. (2013). Attention-modulated alpha-band osculations protect against intrusion of irrelevant information. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. PDF
2011
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Mitchell, J.F., Stoner, G.R., Reynolds, J.H., & Boynton, G.M. (2011). Object-based attention to one of two superimposed surfaces alters responses in human early visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 105(3): 1258-65. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Kraper, C., Carter, A., & Blaser, E. (2011). Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder are more successful at visual search than typically developing toddlers. Developmental Science, 14, 980-8. PDF
1994-2010
Papers
Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2010). Infants get five stars on iconic memory tests: A partial report test of 6-month-old infants' iconic memory capacity. Psychological Science, 21, 1643-1645. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2009). How to compare apples and oranges: Infants' object identification tested with equally salient shape, luminance and color changes. Infancy, 14, 222-43. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Buracas, G.T., & Boynton, G.M. (2007). Spatial and cross-modal attention alter responses to unattended sensory information in early visual and auditory human cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98(4), 2399-2413. PDF
Leslie, A., & Kaldy, Z. (2007). Things to remember: Limits, codes, and the development of object working memory in the first year. In: Oakes, L. M. and Bower, P. J. (Eds.) Short- and long-term memory in infancy and early childhood: Taking the first steps toward remembering. pp. 103-125. Oxford, Oxford University Press. PDF
Arman, A.C., Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Boynton, G.M. (2006). Effects of feature-based attention on the motion aftereffect at remote locations. Vision Research, 46(18), 2968-2976. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2006). Methodological problems in infancy research: What are infants interested in? In: Gervain, J., Kovacs, K., Lukacs, A. and Racsmany, M. (Eds.) A mind with a thousand faces. A Festschrift in honor of Csaba Pleh. Budapest, Akademiai Press. pp. 390-397. (In Hungarian).
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Leslie, A. M. (2006). A new method for calibrating perceptual salience across dimensions in infants: The case of color vs. luminance. Developmental Science, 9, 482-489. PDF
Ng, M., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Anstis, S., Boynton, G.M., & Fine, I. (2006). Selectivity for the configural cues that identify the gender, ethnicity and identity of faces in human cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(51), 19552-7. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Leslie, A. (2005). A memory span of one? Object identification in 6.5-month-old infants. Cognition, 57, 153-177. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2004). Slow developmental processes of the visual system. In: J. Gervain and C. Pleh (Eds.) Invisible cognition. Gondolat, Budapest. pp. 45-52. (In Hungarian).
Kaldy, Z., & Kovacs, I. (2004). Is there an independent planning system? Suggestions from a developmental perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 41-42. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Sigala, N. (2004). The neural mechanisms of object working memory: What is where in the infant brain? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 28, 113-121. PDF
Fitzmaurice, M., Ciaramitaro, V., Palmer, L., & Rosenquist, A. (2003). Visual detection deficits following inactivation of the superior colliculus in the cat. Visual Neuroscience, 20(6), 687-701. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Kovacs, I. (2003). Visual context integration is not fully developed in 4-year-old children. Perception, 32, 657-666. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Leslie, A. M. (2003). Identification of objects in 9-month-old infants: Integrating 'what' and 'where' information. Developmental Science, 6, 360-373. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Cameron, E.L., & Glimcher, P.W. (2001). Stimulus probability directs spatial attention: an enhancement of sensitivity in humans and monkeys. Vision Research, 41, 57-75. PDF
Glimcher, P.W., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Platt, M.L., Bayer, H.M., Brown, M.A., & Handel, A. (2001). Application of neurosonography to experimental physiology. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 108, 131-144. PDF
Leslie, A. M., & Kaldy, Z. (2001). Indexing individual objects in infant working memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 78, 61-74. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Glimcher, P.W. (2000). Attending to Contrast. Neuron, 26, 543-550. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Todd, W.E., & Rosenquist, A.C. (1997). Disinhibition of the superior colliculus restores orienting to visual stimuli in the hemianopic field of the cat. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 387, 568-587. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Wallace, S.F., & Rosenquist, A.C. (1997). Ibotenic acid lesions of the substantia nigra pars reticulata ipsilateral to a visual cortical lesion fail to restore visual orienting responses in the cat. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 377, 596-610. PDF
Delfs, J.M., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Soghomonian J.J., & Chesselet, M.F. (1996). Unilateral nigrostriatal lesions induce a bilateral increase in glutamic acid decarboxylase mRNA in the reticular thalamic nucleus. Neuroscience, 71, 383-395. PDF
Pleh, C., & Kaldy, Z. (1996). Where does story grammar come from? Commentary on R. Miikkulainen: Subsymbolic Natural Language Processing. Psycholoquy (e-journal), 7(34). Link
Rosenquist, A.C., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Durmer, J.S., Wallace, S.F., & Todd, W.E. (1996). Ibotenic acid lesions of the superior colliculus produce longer lasting deficits in visual orienting behavior than aspiration lesions in the cat. Progress in Brain Research, 112, 117-130.
Delfs, J.M., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Parry, T.J., & Chesselet, M.F. (1995). Subthalamic nucleus lesions: Widespread effects on changes in gene expression induced by nigrostriatal dopamine depletion in rats. Journal of Neuroscience, 15(10), 6562-6575. PDF
Diamond, A., Ciaramitaro, V., Donner, E., Djali, S., & Robinson, M. (1994). An animal model of early-treated PKU. Journal of Neuroscience, 14(5), 3072-3082. PDF
Blass, E.M. & Ciaramitaro, V. (1994) A new look at some old mechanisms in human newborns: Taste and tactile determinants of state, affect and action. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 239, 59(1), 1-81. PDF
Blass, E.M., & Ciaramitaro, V. (1994). Tones and states. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 239, 59(1), 97-101. PDF
Papers
Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2025). How attention and working memory work together in the pursuit of goals: The development of the sampling-remembering trade-off. Developmental Review, 75, 101187. PDF
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2025). My tablet’s about to go dead! 6-year-old children adjust their cognitive strategies depending on whether an external source is reliably available. Cognitive Development, 73, 101542, PDF
Liang, Y., Blaser, E., Yi, J. Y., Sai, L., & Kaldy, Z., (2025). The Extended Mind in Young Children: Cost-dependent Trade-off Between External and Internal Memory. Psychological Science, PDF, Suppl.Materials.pdf
Conferences
Donenfeld, J., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2025). Testing the Interleaving Effect Without Response Bias: A Replication of Kornell & Bjork (2008). Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, May 24-26, 2025, Washington, DC.
Koolhaas, C., Zack, J., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2025). The cost-based balancing of sampling versus remembering in a naturalistic task. Poster to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 16-20, 2025, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Koolhaas, C., Liang, Y., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2025). The Shopping Game: How much working memory do children use when it’s up to them? Poster to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, May 1-3, 2025, Minneapolis, MN.
Koolhaas, C., Hamilton, M., Roper, T., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2025). Proactive interference disrupts 2-year-olds’ working memory. Poster to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, May 1-3, 2025, Minneapolis, MN.
2024
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Morina, E., Wu, J.L., Harris, D.A., &. Hayes-Skelton, S.A. (under review). Biases in perceiving positive versus negative emotions: The influence of social anxiety and state affect. Cognition and Emotion.
Donenfeld, J., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2024). The resolution of proactive interference in a novel visual working memory task: A behavioral and pupillometric study. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. PDF
Morina, E., Harris, D.A., Hayes-Skelton, S.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (accepted). Altered mechanisms of adaptation in social anxiety: Differences in adapting to positive versus negative emotional faces. Cognition and Emotion. PDF
Kosie, J., Zettersten, M. … Kaldy, Z., …Lew-Williams, C. (registered report accepted). ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. Nature Human Behaviour. https://psyarxiv.com/ck3vd/
Westebbe, L., Liang, Y., & Blaser, E. (2024). The Accuracy and Precision of Memory for Natural Scenes: A Walk in the Park. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, 8, 131–147. doi.org /10.1162/opmi_a_00122
Hamilton, M., Roper, T., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2024). Can’t get it out of my head: Proactive interference in 3- to 8-year-old children’s visual working memory. Developmental Psychology, 60, 3, 582–594. PDF
Conferences
Blesic, M., Koolhaas, C., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z., & Kovács, A.M. (2024). Gist-based scene categorization in infants. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-11, 2024, Glasgow, UK.
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2024). Infants can build panoramic scene representations from different viewpoints. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-11, 2024, Glasgow, UK.
Pham, Q.A. & Blankenship T. L. (2024). Imagining the short-term and long-term future from another’s perspective. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-11, 2024, Glasgow, UK.
Tan, R., Cao, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2024). 4 trials is not enough: the amount of prior audio-visual but NOT audio-tactile exposure strengthens crossmodal correspondences between nonsense sounds and abstract shapes experienced via touch early in development. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Multisensory Research Forum, June 17-20, Reno NV.
Donenfeld, J., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2024). Testing the Interleaving Effect Without Response Bias: A Replication of Kornell & Bjork (2008). Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Society, May 24-26, 2024, San Francisco, CA.
Cao, S., Kelly, J., Nguyen, C., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro V.M. (2024). Prior visual experience increases children's use of effective haptic exploration strategies in audio-tactile sound-shape correspondences. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 17-22, 2024, St Pete Beach, FL.
Sharma, K., Morina, E., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2024). Emotional processing biases in social anxiety: testing ecologically valid emotional stimuli. Poster presented at the Annual CLA Undergraduate Research Showcase at the University of Massachusetts Boston, April 24, 2024.
Sharma, K., Morina, E., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2024). Biases in the processing of dynamic emotional faces and emotional voices as a function of social anxiety. Poster presented at the Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 19, 2024.
Donenfeld, J., Kaldy, Z., Blankenship., T., & Bell, M.A. (2024). Schooling improves inhibitory control in 6-year-olds independent of age: A secondary data analysis. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, March 21-23, 2024, Pasadena, CA. PDF
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2024). My tablet’s about to go dead! 6-year-old children adjust their cognitive strategies depending on whether an external source is reliably available. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, March 21-23, 2024, Pasadena, CA.
Pham, Q.A., Trindade, L., Blankenship T. L. (2024). Episodic memory supports episodic future thinking for oneself and another. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, March 21-23, 2024, Pasadena, CA
2023
Papers
Blankenship, T.L. & Kibbe, M. M. (2023). Plan chunking supports memory-guided planning in 3-year-olds. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13929
Cao, S., Kelly, J., Nguyen, C., Chow, H.M, Leonardo, B, Sabov, A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (accepted). Prior visual experience increases children's use of effective haptic exploration strategies in audio-tactile sound-shape correspondences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Chow, HM, Briggs, D, & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). Does task-irrelevant brightness modulation affect auditory contrast processing? Exploring the interplay between temporal synchrony and stimulus salience. Multisensory Research. PDF
Sirois, S., Brisson, J., Blaser, E., Calignano, G., Donenfeld, J., Hepach, R., Hochmann J., Kaldy, Z., Liszkowski, U., Mayer, M., Ross-Sheehy, S., Russo, S., & Valenza, E. (2023). The pupil collaboration: A multi-lab, multi-method analysis of goal attribution in infants. Infant Behavior and Development, 73, 101890, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101890
Conferences
Morina, E., Beshara, M. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). Attention influences neural responses based on crossmodal correspondences: Responses to abstract shapes are enhanced, even when attending irrelevant shape features, depending on audio-visual congruency. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Nov 11, 2023, Washington D.C.
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Morina, E. (2023). Using EEG frequency tagging to probe crossmodal correspondences: the influence of attention and audio-visual congruency on a neural signature for shape processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Nov 11, 2023, Washington D.C.
Pham Q. A., Broomell A.P.R., & Blankenship T. L. (2023). Using theory of mind in memory guided planning. Poster presented at the 30th Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, August 28-31, 2023, Prague, Czech Republic.
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2023). Young children’s cost-dependent tradeoff between looking and remembering. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2023, St. Pete Beach, FL. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2792509
Alvarado, C., Tihamiuddin, S, Cao, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). The feeling of kiki: Do young children associate nonsense sounds and textures? Poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Showcase at the University of Massachusetts Boston, May 9, 2023.
Alvarado, C., Tihamiuddin, S, Cao, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2023). The feeling of kiki: Do young children associate nonsense sounds and textures? Poster presented at the Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, April 28, 2023.
Pham, Q. & Blankenship, T. (2023). Inhibitory Control Contributes to Successful Memory-Guided Planning During Early Childhood. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 23-25, 2023, Salt Lake City, UT.
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2023). Young children strategically trade-off between looking and remembering depending on cost. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 23-25, 2023, Salt Lake City, UT.
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2023). The development of proactive interference resolution in visual working memory. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 23-25, 2023, Salt Lake City, UT.
Blesic, M., Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. & Kovács, A.M. (2023). 18-month-old infants can extract the gist of a scene with labels. Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD23), January 5-7, 2023, Budapest, Hungary.
2022
Papers
Blankenship, T. L., & Kibbe, M. M. (2022). Two-year-olds apply episodic memories to accomplish novel goals. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 214, 105286.
Blankenship, T. L., Calkins, S. D., & Bell., M.A. (2022). The role of executive functions in item recognition and temporal order memory. Journal of Cognition and Development, 23, 135-147.
Freschl, J., Al Azizi, L., Balboa, L., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2022). The development of peak alpha frequency from infancy to adolescence and its role in visual temporal processing: A meta-analysis. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 57: 101146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2022.101146
Sigala, N., Kaldy, Z., & Reynolds, G. (2022). Editorial: The cognitive neuroscience of visual working memory – Volume II. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 16:1017754. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2022.1017754
Hamilton, M., Ross, A., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Proactive interference and working memory development. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews – Cognitive Science, e1593. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1593 PDF
Visser, I., Bergmann, C., Byers-Heinlein, K., Dal Ben, R., Duch, W., Forbes, S., ... Kaldy, Z.., … Zettersten, M. (2022). Improving the generalizability of infant psychological research: The ManyBabies model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, E35. doi:10.1017/S0140525X21000455. PDF
Conferences
Blankenship, T. L. (2022). Limitations of memory-guided planning in 2- and 3-year-olds. Poster presented at the International Conference of Infant Studies Biennial meeting, Ottawa, Canada.
Blankenship, T.L., Kibbe, M. M. (2022). “Plan chunking” improves 3-year-olds’ ability to use episodic memories to guide future actions. Symposium paper presented virtually at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.
Blesic, M., Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. & Kovács, A.M. (2022). 18-month-old infants can extract the gist of a scene. Poster presented at the 7th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Aug 24-26, 2022, Lancaster, UK.
Beshore, J., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Pupillary response indicates the resolution of proactive interference in a visual working memory task. Talk presented at the Annual Working Memory Symposium, June 21-24, 2022. (virtual)
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Morina, E. (2022) Development of the angry-male/ happy-female bias. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Apr 23-26. San Francisco, CA.
Morina, E. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2022) The angry-male/ happy-female bias in individuals high versus low in social anxiety. Cognitive Neuroscience Society. Apr 23-26. San Francisco, CA.
Hamilton, M., Roper, T., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Proactive interference from LTM hinders retrieval from visual working memory in 3-year-olds. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Apr 21-22, 2022, Madison, WI.
Morina, E. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2022) Changes in the angry-male / happy-female bias across development. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2022, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Beshore, J., Blaser, E., Kaldy, Z. (2022). Pupillary response indicates the resolution of proactive interference in a visual working memory task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 13-18, 2022, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2022). Proactive interference disrupts toddlers’ visual working memory. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 8-10, 2022, Ottawa, Canada.
Pham Q. & Blankenship T. L. (2022) Inhibitory control contributes to successful memory-guided planning during early childhood. Poster presented at NeuroBoston Society for Neuroscience Boston chapter meeting, Boston, MA.
2021
Papers
Fitch, A., Thaker, N., & Kaldy, Z. (2021). The role of redundant verbal labels in 8- and 10-month-olds’ working memory. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101617. PDF
Chow, H.M., Harris, D.A., Eid, S., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2021). The feeling of "kiki": Comparing developmental changes in sound-shape correspondence for audio-visual and audio-tactile stimuli. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105167. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2021). Coffee with the executive. Book review of David Badre’s ‘On Task’. Current Biology, 31, R270–R271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.02.020. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2021). On taking the historian’s stance in a natural science. In: Gervain, J., Kovács, K., & Csibra, G. (Eds.) A Life in Cognition: Studies in Cognitive Science in honor of Csaba Pléh. Language, Cognition, and Mind, vol 11. Springer, Cham. PDF https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66175-5_14
Conferences
Blankenship, T. L., Strong R. W., & Kibbe, M. M. (April, 2021). Development of split foci of attention. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development’s Conference biennial meeting (virtual due to COVID-19).
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2021). Proactive interference disrupts 3-year-old toddlers’ visual working memory. Poster presented at the 6th Lancaster Conference on Infant and Child Development, Aug 25-27, 2021. (virtual due to COVID-19)
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Kelly, J., & Nguyen, C. (2021). The feeling of “kiki”: select tactile experience or visual imagery can enhance abstract audio-tactile crossmodal correspondences in early childhood. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 21-26, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Freschl, J., Al Alizi, L., Balboa, L., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2021). The development of peak alpha frequency from infancy to adolescence and its role in visual temporal processing: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 21-26, 2021. (virtual due to COVID-19) abstract
Liang, Y., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2021). Building 3D scene representations from different viewpoints: A contextual cueing study. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 21-26, 2021. (virtual due to COVID-19) abstract
Freschl, J., Al Alizi, L., Balboa, L., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2021). Development of occipital peak alpha frequency: A meta-analysis. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 4-9, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Kelly, J., & Nguyen, C. (2021). The feeling of “kiki”: tactile experience and visual imagery can enhance abstract audio-tactile crossmodal correspondences in early childhood, but do they alter haptic exploration strategies? Presentation at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD21), January 3-5, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Kaldy, Z., Cheng, C., & Blaser, E. (2021). Delayed Match Retrieval: A five-year retrospective. Presentation at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD21), January 3-5, 2021. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
2020
Papers
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Carter, A. S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Seeing a page of a flipbook: Shorter visual temporal integration windows in 2-year-old toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research. https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.2430. PDF
Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). A crowd of emotional voices influences the perception of emotional faces: Using adaptation, stimulus salience, and attention to probe audio-visual interactions for emotional stimuli. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02104-0. URL
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Coding of featural information in Visual Working Memory in 2.5-year-old toddlers. Cognitive Development, 55:100892. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Putting effort into infant cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420903015. PDF
Chow HM., Leviyah, X., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). Individual differences in multisensory interactions: The influence of temporal phase coherence and auditory salience on visual contrast sensitivity. Vision, Special Issue on Multisensory Modulation of Vision, 4, 12. PDF
Blankenship, T. L., Strong, R. W., Kibbe, M. M. (2020). Development of multiple object tracking via multifocal attention. Developmental Psychology, 56, 1684. PDF
Conferences
Hamilton, M., Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2020). Proactive interference disrupts toddlers’ visual working memory. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 6-9, 2020. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Multimodal stimuli with sound/shape correspondence help the working memory of 9-month-old infants. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, July 6-9, 2020. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Kelly, J. Nguyen, K. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). Feeling Bouba or Kiki: the role of select prior exposure in enhancing audio-tactile associations early in development. Sigma Xi Student Scholars Symposium May 14, 2020, [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2020). Visual temporal integration windows are longer in infants. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, June 19-24, 2020, St. Pete Beach, FL. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2020). Multisensory interactions between emotional faces and voices can be enhanced by attending to face emotion, but not to face gender. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, May 2-5, 2020, [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
Kaldy, Z. (2020). Visual attentional mechanisms in 2-year-olds with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Invited talk as part of the Presidential Symposium at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, June 17-18, 2020. [VIRTUAL DUE TO COVID-19]
2019
Papers
Guillory, S. B., & Kaldy, Z. (2019). Persistence and accumulation of visual memories for objects in scenes in 12-month-old infants. Frontiers in Psychology, 10: 2454. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02454
Izen, S.C., Lapp, H. E., Harris, D.A., Hunter, R. G., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019). Seeing a face in a crowd of emotional voices: Changes in perception and cortisol in response to emotional information across the senses. Brain Sciences, Special Issue on Perceptual and Affective Mechanisms in Facial Expression, 9, 176. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). 2-year-olds succeed at MIT: Multiple Identity Tracking in 20- and 25-month-old infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 187, 104649. PDF
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). Visual temporal integration windows are adult-like in 5-7-year-old children. Journal of Vision, 19(7):5, 1–12. https://jov.arvojournals.org/Article.aspx?articleid=2738014.
Smith, H., Carter, A. S., Blaser. E., Kaldy. Z. (2019) Successful attentional set-shifting in 2-year- olds with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0213903. https://doi.org/ 10.1371/journal.pone.0213903.
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). Pupillometry reveals that focused attention predicts visual working memory performance in infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 36:100616. doi:10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100616.
Media coverage: ScienceTrends.com
Chow HM. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019). What makes a shape 'baba'? The shape feature prioritized in sound-shape correspondence changes with development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 179, 73-89. PDF
Fitch, A., Valadez, A., Ganea, P., Carter, A. S., & Kaldy, Z. (2019). Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder can use language to update their expectations about the world. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49(2):429-440. PDF
Blankenship, T.L. & Kibbe, M. M. (2019). Examining the limits of memory-guided planning in 3 and 4-year-olds. Cognitive Development, 52, 100820. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., Slough, M.A., Calkins, S.D., Deater-Deckard, K., Kim-Spoon, J., & Bell, M.A., (2019). Attention and executive functioning in infancy: links to childhood executive function and reading achievement. Developmental Science, e12824. PDF
Conferences
Izen, S.C., Lapp, H.E., Harris, D.A., Hunter, R.G., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Seeing a face in a crowds of emotional voices: Changes in perception and cortisol in response to emotional information across the senses. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, October 19-23, Chicago, IL.
Raymond, N., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Quantifying perceptual biases in social anxiety: How do different measures compare? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences, May 27-30, Washington, DC.
Kelly, J., Chow, HM, Nguyen, C. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Feeling bouba or kiki: a role for visual exposure in tactile-audio associations. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences, May 27-30, Washington, DC.
Baidak, B. Hughes, D.E., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Does the attractiveness of a face bias how we perceive emotion in a face? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Sciences, May 27-30, Washington, DC.
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., Morina, E. (2019). Crossmodal correspondences between abstract shapes and nonsense words modulate a neuronal signature of visual shape processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 17-22, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Carter, A. S., Dhungana, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). Visual temporal integration windows in 2-year-old toddlers with and without ASD. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 17-22, 2019, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Morina, E., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2019) Does sound shape correspondence modulate a neuronal signature of visual shape processing for attended shapes? Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 23-26, 2019, San Francisco, CA.
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z.,& Blaser, E. (2019). Robust Visual Working Memory for object features in 2.5-year-olds. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 21-23, 2019, Baltimore, MD. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2019). Making infants’ working memory work. Invited paper as part of the Symposium The Development of Working Memory at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD19), January 3-5, 2019, Budapest, Hungary.
Cheng, C., Dhungana, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2019). The development of visual working memory over the second year of life. Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD19), January 3-5, 2019, Budapest, Hungary. PDF
Choi M., & Shukla, M. (2019). Can infants use multiple cues in phoneme Learning? Poster presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD19), January 3-5, 2019, Budapest, Hungary.
2018
Papers
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Using object history to predict future behavior: Evidence for essentialism at 9 months of age. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Krogh-Jespersen, S., Kaldy, Z., Valadez, A., Carter, A. S., & Woodward, A. (2018). Goal prediction in 2-year-old children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder: An eye-tracking study. Autism Research. PDF
Guillory, S. B., Gliga, T., & Kaldy, Z. (2018). Quantifying attentional effects on the fidelity and biases of visual working memory in young children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 167, 146–161. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., Broomell, A.P.R., & Bell, M.A. (2018). Semantic future thinking and executive funtions at age 4: the moderating role of frontal activity. Developmental Psychobiology, 60, 608-614. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., Keith, K., Calkins, S.D., & Bell, M.A. (2018). Behavioral performance and neural areas associated with memory processes contribute to math and reading achievement in 6-year-old children. Cognitive Development, 47, 63-70. PDF
Conferences
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z.,& Blaser, E. (2018). Using object history to predict future behavior: Are young infants essentialists? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, July 25-28, 2018, Madison, WI. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Pupillometry uncovers the role of focused attention in Visual Working Memory in infants. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Cheng, C., Kaldy, Z., Dhungana, S., & Blaser, E. (2018). Successful updating of spatial information in Visual Working Memory in 20- and 25-month-olds. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Fitch, A., Valadez, A., Carter, A. S., & Kaldy, Z. (2018). Toddlers with ASD can use linguistic information to update their mental representations. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies as part of the Symposium “The Development of Working Memory Updating”, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA.
Fitch, A., Ganea, P., Harris, P., & Kaldy, Z. (2018). 17-month-olds do not revoke trust from unreliable informants providing verbal testimony. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Carter, A. S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Visual Temporal Integration Windows are longer in 2-year-old toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA. PDF
Choi M., Shukla, M. (2018). Using Multiple Cues in Phoneme Learning. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, June 30-July 3, 2018, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Endogenous attention impairs a neuronal signature of audio-visual sound-shape correspondence. International Multisensory Research Forum, June 14-17, Toronto, Canada. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., & Silva, N. (2018) Musical expertise weakens the cost of dividing attention between vision and audition. International Multisensory Research Forum, June 14-17, Toronto, Canada. PDF
Izen, S.C., Parent, K., Goutama, V., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) How the emotion we see is influenced by the emotion we hear depends on the visibility of a face. International Multisensory Research Forum, June 14-17, Toronto, Canada. PDF
Freschl, J., Melcher, D., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2018). Visual Temporal Integration Windows are adult-like in typically developing 5-7-year-old children. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 18-23, 2018, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Chow, H.M. Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Musical expertise modulates the cost of crossmodal divided attention between vision and audition in behavior but not in tonic pupil dilation. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 18-23, 2018, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Morina, E., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) The strength of adaptation to negative versus positive emotional information depends on social anxiety status. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, May 18-23, 2018, St. Pete Beach, FL. PDF
Leviyah, X., Chow, H.M. & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Interactions between stimulus salience and timing determine the extent to which a sound alters visual detectability. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Morina, E., Raymond, N., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Maintained negative biases in social anxiety via biased adaptation to happy and angry faces depends on face gender. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Parent, K., Goutama, V., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) How the Emotion We See is Influenced by the Emotion We Hear Depends on the Visibility of a Face. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Sabov, A., Chow, H.M., Leonardo, B., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) A neuronal signature for correspondences between abstract shapes and sounds. Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Silva, N., Chow, H.M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Does musical training improve crossmodal attention? Twenty-Fourth Annual Massachusetts Statewide Undergraduate Research Conference, UMass Amherst. April 27, Amherst, MA.
Chow, H.M., Leonardo, B., Sabov, A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. Is a round shape integrated with a /bouba/ sound?
Enhanced neuronal signals at the intermodulation frequencies of congruent audio-visual stimuli. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Izen, S.C., Leviyah, X., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Seen and heard emotions of a crowd alter perception and state affect. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M. Izen, S.C., Lapp, H.E., Harris, D.A., Hunter, R.G. (2018) Seen and heard emotions alter perception and cortisol. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Morina, E., Izen, S.C., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2018) Weakened adaptation for negative compared to positive emotions in individuals high in social anxiety. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, March 24-27, Boston, MA. PDF
Uysal, E., Choi M., de Villiers, J., Shukla, M. (2018). Some Complex Concepts Require Language: An eye-tracking study with 12- to 24-mo-old infants and adults. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
Choi M., Uysal, E., Shukla, M. (2018). Phoneme learning in a musical context. Poster presented at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA.
2017
Papers
Soto, T.W., Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Carter, A.S. (2017). Sensory Over Responsivity. In C. Zeanah (Ed), Handbook of infant mental health, 4th edition, New York, Guilford Press. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Chow, H.M., & Eglington, L.G. (2017). Crossmodal attention influences auditory contrast sensitivity: Decreasing visual load improves auditory thresholds for amplitude and frequency modulated sounds. Journal of Vision, 17(3):20, 1–22. PDF
Kaldy, Z. & Sigala, N. (2017). Editorial: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Working Memory. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 11:1. PDF
Kibbe, M., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2017). Rules infants look by: Testing the assumption of transitivity in visual salience. Infancy. PDF
Király, I., Takács, S., Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2017). Preschoolers have better long-term memory for rhyming text than adults. Developmental Science, 20, e12398. PDF Supplemental TEXT Supplemental VIDEO
2016
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Stoner, G.R. (2016) . Editorial: Beyond space-based and feature-based selection: Mechanisms of object-based attention. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. PDF
Fitch, A.*, Smith, H*., Guillory, S. B., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). Off to a Good Start: The Early Development of the Neural Substrates Underlying Visual Working Memory. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 10: 68. *co-first authors PDF
Ganea, P., Fitch, A., Harris, P., & Kaldy, Z. (2016). 16-month-olds use language to generate expectations about the visual world. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 151, 65-76. PDF
Harris, D.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016) Interdependent mechanisms for processing gender and emotion: The special status of angry male faces. Frontiers in Psychology. PDF
Harris, D.A., Hayes-Skelton, S.A., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). What's in a face? How face gender and current affect influence perceived emotion. Frontiers in Psychology. 7: 1468. PDF
Shukla, M., & Ciaramitaro, V.M. (2016). Cognitive capacities of the infant mind: A neuroimaging perspective. In: M. Farisco & K. Evers (Eds.) Neurotechnology and direct brain communication. Taylor & Francis. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., O'Neill, M., Deater-Deckard, K., Diana, R.A., & Bell, M.A. (2016). Frontotemporal functional connectivity and executive funtions contribute to episodic memory performance. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 107, 72-82. PDF
Special Issue
Sigala, N., & Kaldy, Z. (Eds.) (2016). The cognitive neuroscience of visual working memory. Research Topic in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/3444/the-cognitive-neuroscience-of-visual-working-memory
2015
Papers
Chow, H.M., & Tseng, C.H. (2015). Invisible collinear structures impair search. Consciousness & Cognition, 31:46-59. PDF
Fischer, J., Smith, H., Martinez Pedraza, F., Carter, A.S., Kanwisher, N., & Kaldy, Z. (2015). Unimpaired attentional disengagement in toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Developmental Science. PDF
Fitch, A., Fein, D.A., & Eigsti, I.M. (2015). Detail and Gestalt Focus in Individuals with Optimal Outcomes from Autism Spectrum Disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(6), 1887-1896. PDF
Kaldy Z., Guillory, S.B., & Blaser, E. (2015). Delayed Match Retrieval: A novel anticipation-based Visual Working Memory paradigm. Developmental Science. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., & Bell, M.A. (2015). Frontotemporal coherence and executive functions contribute to memory performance in middle childhood. Developmental Psychobiology, 40, 430-444. PDF
Blankenship, T.L., O'Neill, M., Ross, A., & Bell, M.A. (2015). Working memory and recollection contribute to academic achievement. Learning and Individual Differences, 43, 164-169. PDF
2014
Special Issue
Ciaramitaro, V.M. & Stoner, G. (Eds.) (2014). Beyond Space-based or Feature-based Selection: Mechanisms of Object-based Attention. Research Topic in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/1220/beyond-space-based-or-feature-based-selection-mechanisms-of-object-based-attention
Papers
Blaser, E., Eglington, L., Carter, A.S., & Kaldy, Z. (2014). Pupillometry Reveals a Mechanism for the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) Advantage in Visual Tasks. Scientific Reports, 4, 4301; doi:10.1038/srep04301. PDF
2013
Papers
Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2013). Red to green or fast to slow? Infants' Visual Working Memory for 'Just Salient Differences'. Child Development, 84(6), 1855-1862. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Giserman, I., Carter, A. S., & Blaser, E. (2013). The mechanisms underlying the ASD advantage in visual search. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. PDF
Payne, L., Guillory, S., & Sekuler, R. (2013). Attention-modulated alpha-band osculations protect against intrusion of irrelevant information. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. PDF
2011
Papers
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Mitchell, J.F., Stoner, G.R., Reynolds, J.H., & Boynton, G.M. (2011). Object-based attention to one of two superimposed surfaces alters responses in human early visual cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 105(3): 1258-65. PDF
Kaldy, Z., Kraper, C., Carter, A., & Blaser, E. (2011). Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder are more successful at visual search than typically developing toddlers. Developmental Science, 14, 980-8. PDF
1994-2010
Papers
Blaser, E., & Kaldy, Z. (2010). Infants get five stars on iconic memory tests: A partial report test of 6-month-old infants' iconic memory capacity. Psychological Science, 21, 1643-1645. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Blaser, E. (2009). How to compare apples and oranges: Infants' object identification tested with equally salient shape, luminance and color changes. Infancy, 14, 222-43. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Buracas, G.T., & Boynton, G.M. (2007). Spatial and cross-modal attention alter responses to unattended sensory information in early visual and auditory human cortex. Journal of Neurophysiology, 98(4), 2399-2413. PDF
Leslie, A., & Kaldy, Z. (2007). Things to remember: Limits, codes, and the development of object working memory in the first year. In: Oakes, L. M. and Bower, P. J. (Eds.) Short- and long-term memory in infancy and early childhood: Taking the first steps toward remembering. pp. 103-125. Oxford, Oxford University Press. PDF
Arman, A.C., Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Boynton, G.M. (2006). Effects of feature-based attention on the motion aftereffect at remote locations. Vision Research, 46(18), 2968-2976. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2006). Methodological problems in infancy research: What are infants interested in? In: Gervain, J., Kovacs, K., Lukacs, A. and Racsmany, M. (Eds.) A mind with a thousand faces. A Festschrift in honor of Csaba Pleh. Budapest, Akademiai Press. pp. 390-397. (In Hungarian).
Kaldy, Z., Blaser, E., & Leslie, A. M. (2006). A new method for calibrating perceptual salience across dimensions in infants: The case of color vs. luminance. Developmental Science, 9, 482-489. PDF
Ng, M., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Anstis, S., Boynton, G.M., & Fine, I. (2006). Selectivity for the configural cues that identify the gender, ethnicity and identity of faces in human cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(51), 19552-7. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Leslie, A. (2005). A memory span of one? Object identification in 6.5-month-old infants. Cognition, 57, 153-177. PDF
Kaldy, Z. (2004). Slow developmental processes of the visual system. In: J. Gervain and C. Pleh (Eds.) Invisible cognition. Gondolat, Budapest. pp. 45-52. (In Hungarian).
Kaldy, Z., & Kovacs, I. (2004). Is there an independent planning system? Suggestions from a developmental perspective. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 41-42. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Sigala, N. (2004). The neural mechanisms of object working memory: What is where in the infant brain? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 28, 113-121. PDF
Fitzmaurice, M., Ciaramitaro, V., Palmer, L., & Rosenquist, A. (2003). Visual detection deficits following inactivation of the superior colliculus in the cat. Visual Neuroscience, 20(6), 687-701. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Kovacs, I. (2003). Visual context integration is not fully developed in 4-year-old children. Perception, 32, 657-666. PDF
Kaldy, Z., & Leslie, A. M. (2003). Identification of objects in 9-month-old infants: Integrating 'what' and 'where' information. Developmental Science, 6, 360-373. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Cameron, E.L., & Glimcher, P.W. (2001). Stimulus probability directs spatial attention: an enhancement of sensitivity in humans and monkeys. Vision Research, 41, 57-75. PDF
Glimcher, P.W., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Platt, M.L., Bayer, H.M., Brown, M.A., & Handel, A. (2001). Application of neurosonography to experimental physiology. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 108, 131-144. PDF
Leslie, A. M., & Kaldy, Z. (2001). Indexing individual objects in infant working memory. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 78, 61-74. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., & Glimcher, P.W. (2000). Attending to Contrast. Neuron, 26, 543-550. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Todd, W.E., & Rosenquist, A.C. (1997). Disinhibition of the superior colliculus restores orienting to visual stimuli in the hemianopic field of the cat. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 387, 568-587. PDF
Ciaramitaro, V.M., Wallace, S.F., & Rosenquist, A.C. (1997). Ibotenic acid lesions of the substantia nigra pars reticulata ipsilateral to a visual cortical lesion fail to restore visual orienting responses in the cat. Journal of Comparative Neurology, 377, 596-610. PDF
Delfs, J.M., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Soghomonian J.J., & Chesselet, M.F. (1996). Unilateral nigrostriatal lesions induce a bilateral increase in glutamic acid decarboxylase mRNA in the reticular thalamic nucleus. Neuroscience, 71, 383-395. PDF
Pleh, C., & Kaldy, Z. (1996). Where does story grammar come from? Commentary on R. Miikkulainen: Subsymbolic Natural Language Processing. Psycholoquy (e-journal), 7(34). Link
Rosenquist, A.C., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Durmer, J.S., Wallace, S.F., & Todd, W.E. (1996). Ibotenic acid lesions of the superior colliculus produce longer lasting deficits in visual orienting behavior than aspiration lesions in the cat. Progress in Brain Research, 112, 117-130.
Delfs, J.M., Ciaramitaro, V.M., Parry, T.J., & Chesselet, M.F. (1995). Subthalamic nucleus lesions: Widespread effects on changes in gene expression induced by nigrostriatal dopamine depletion in rats. Journal of Neuroscience, 15(10), 6562-6575. PDF
Diamond, A., Ciaramitaro, V., Donner, E., Djali, S., & Robinson, M. (1994). An animal model of early-treated PKU. Journal of Neuroscience, 14(5), 3072-3082. PDF
Blass, E.M. & Ciaramitaro, V. (1994) A new look at some old mechanisms in human newborns: Taste and tactile determinants of state, affect and action. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 239, 59(1), 1-81. PDF
Blass, E.M., & Ciaramitaro, V. (1994). Tones and states. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 239, 59(1), 97-101. PDF
